===================================== MONASH ASIA INSTITUTE BULLETIN 10/2004 6 October 2004 ===================================== In this bulletin 1. CSEAS Seminars 2. Tantra, consciousness and reality seminar 3. Asian Business Workshop 4. MAI Postgraduate Seminar 5. India Update 6. Mumbai Economic Convention 7. Korean Studies Seminar 8. Online seminar - contemporary Indonesian Issues 9. Asia CEO Update Luncheon 10. Conference: Civil society under Lee Hsien Loong 11. Conference: The Park Era 12. Website of the month: ABYZ News Links ---------------------------------------------------- Item 1. CSEAS Seminars Seminars are held on Thursdays 11.00am Room SG02 Manton Rooms, Monash University Clayton Campus --- 7 October 2004 "Servant Leadership in Organizations: the Case of Malaysia" Mr David Chin, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, (david.chin@buseco.monash.edu.au) Abstract Management theory is now focusing on ethical issues in corporate culture and business practice. There is a clear trend towards emphasizing positive aspects of organizational behaviour: transparency, corporate responsibility, spirituality and management, servant leadership. Servant leadership is to lead with service above self and for others' benefit. Popular press accounts show that CEOs with servant leadership qualities are able to lead their corporations to prosperity through practising high levels of corporate and individual morality and empowering employees. This paper focuses on the nature of servant leadership practised in Malaysian organizations. Joint Centre for Malaysian Studies/Centre for Southeast Asian Studies Seminar, Monash Asia Institute --- 14 October 2004 "The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia Project: A Participant's View" Professor David Chandler, (David.Chandler@adm.monash.edu.au) --- 21 October 2004 Topic TBA Prof. Barbara Hatley, University of Tasmania, (Barbara.Hatley@utas.edu.au) --- ALL WELCOME Enquiries for all CSEAS Seminars: Dr Robert Rice Website: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/mai/cseas/cseasseminar04.html#sem2 ------------------------------------------- Item 2. Tantra, consciousness and reality seminar Saturday 16 October 2004, 2.00pm - 5.00 pm Lecture Theatre 3 (L3), Building 12 (Law Faculty), Monash University Clayton campus Monash Asia Institute and the Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology, Monash University are combining to present a free introductory seminar "Tantra, Consciousness, and Reality: Exploring Kashmir Shaivism". This is an opportunity for two distinguished authorities on this rich vein of Indian spirituality, Rev Dr John Dupuche and Swami Shankarananda, to combine their insights on Kashmir Shaivism, together with a distinguished panel, comprising a Brahmin priest, experts on Indian religious tradition, and a teacher of yoga. The seminar will bring together scholarly and experiential dimensions on a great tantric tradition that is currently attracting wide attention in the Western world. For further details on this seminar, go to http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/religion_theology/ Enquiries: Assoc. Professor Constant Mews Director, Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology, School of Historical Studies Monash University ------------------------------------------- Item 3. Asian Business Workshop Monday 18 October 2004 30 Collins Street, Melbourne 7th Floor, Conference Room from 9.00am to 4.00pm "Asian Business in the Global Age" Workshop hosted by Asian Business and Economic Research Unit (ABERU) Workshop Faculty of Business and Economics Speakers in this workshop will present papers focussing on labour mobility in Asia, especially in relation to China, East Asia and South Asia. Papers include: "What determines the extent to which employers will comply with their social security obligations? Evidence from Chinese firm level data." Professor Chris Nyland, Professor Russell Smyth and Associate Professor Cherrie Jiuhua Zhu "Open Skies in ASEAN" Professor Peter Forsyth, Monash University "Dalit unemployment in India: The impact of US/EU farm subsidies" Professor Marika Vicziany "Asian brands in the global economy" Professor Mike Ewing "Government, Business and Economic Development in the regulation of Chinese Companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange: Five case studies" Dr Alice de Jonge "The process of foreign market entry for professional service firms: A case study of an Australian law firm in a newly emerging market" Dr. Susan Freeman, Monash University For more details, see: http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/units/aberu/ Enquiries and Registration: Dr Susan Freeman Tel: 3 9903 2674 Ms Fang Tel 3 9903 1031 ------------------------------------------- Item 4. MAI Postgraduate Seminar Friday 29 October 2004 10.00 am - 12. 00 noon Room S822, Menzies Building (11), Monash University Clayton campus Associate Professor Geoffrey Quail will present a paper on "Parasitic Infection and Nutrition in Asian Health." Assoc. Prof Quail is working on a PhD thesis with Professor Mark Wahlqvist. He comes to the Monash Asia Institute with a distinguished record of research and practice at the Monash Medical Centre and before then with the Australian Armed Forces. ALL WELCOME Enquiries: Juliet Yee ------------------------------------------- Item 5. India Update 24 and 25 November 2004 "India Today: The 2004 Elections and the Business Environment." Venue: University of Canberra Partners: Monash Asia Institute, SARU at Curtin University, International Business Unit at the University of New South Wales, the University of New England, the South Asian Studies Association of Australia. For further details contact: Dr Auriol Weigold ------------------------------------------- Item 6. Mumbai Economic Convention The Monash Asia Institute is pleased to announced that with the support of Monash Abroad and the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, we are sending six undergraduate economics students to participate for the 6th year in the Undergraduate Economics Convention of the Hyderabad Sind National Collegiate Board in Mumbai, India. This year's theme is: "The causes and consequences of rural migration on the growth of Mumbai." The Monash team is writing a research report on the impact of migration from the Gujarat to Mumbai, using the Todaro model that predicts that better urban jobs will accelerate urban poverty by increasing the rate of rural outmigration. The hosts in Mumbai are the parents, teachers and students of the Hyderabad Sind National Colleges affiliated to the University of Mumbai. The Monash team returns to India to defend the Mumbai cup that they won in December 2003 for the 3rd time in five years. =============================================================== Monash University events =============================================================== Item 7. Korean Studies Seminar Thursday 7 October 2004, 3.00 pm Room W511 (LCL library), Menzies Building (11), Monash University Clayton campus "Sex Trafficking and the US Military: Experiences of Trafficked Women in South Korea" Dr. Sallie Yea School of Social Science and Planning, RMIT University Abstract Since 1998 substantial numbers of Filipino and Russian women have been trafficked into both American and Korean oriented clubs, bars and brothels in South Korea, usually entering legally on E-6, or "entertainer" visas. Upon deployment in their workplace in Korea, many are forced into prostitution and the provision of other sexual services. Many are also subject to other forms of labour exploitation, including unfulfilled contractual obligations by employers pertaining to salary and other working conditions, and numerous human rights abuses, including restricting freedom of movement and episodes of physical, sexual and psychological abuse by customers and employers. As with other women who are trafficked, the circumstances of these women in Korea are characterised by extreme insecurity, high levels of exploitation, human rights abuses and continued subjugation to inequitable relationships based on gender, class and nationality. In addition, personal freedoms and social interaction are often severely curtailed and risks to personal safety palpable. This presentation details the specific circumstances of Filipinas trafficked to American military base areas (camp towns) in Korea and the context in which it arose and continues. I suggest that the processes and patterns of trafficking to Korea are different in many respects from those often cited in discussions of trafficking in the Asian region. The departures presented by the Korean context point to the need to recognise differences as well as commonalities in the nature of trafficking throughout the region and the need to draw more fully on a range of trafficking sites beyond the traditionally discussed South Asian and Mekong sub-region contexts in extending our knowledge of trafficking and ability to respond with appropriate actions. ------------------------------------------- Item 8. Online seminar - contemporary Indonesian Issues National Online Undergraduate Seminar - Indonesian Studies (NOUS - IS) Friday, 8 October 2004, 11.00 am - 2.00 pm Room W204, Menzies Building (11), Monash University Clayton campus Four speakers on contemporary Indonesian issues will take part in this nation wide on-line seminar. Students and staff at Monash are invited to take part in the seminars and you will be able to post questions via a parallel chat line or speak via a computer link directly to the presenters. We welcome those interested to attend all four presentations or to select the seminars that most interest you. Speakers include: Professor Colin Brown, Dean, Faculty of Media, Society and Culture, Curtin University of Technology 'Why should Australians be positive about Indonesia?' Dr Megan Jennaway Postdoctoral Fellow at CIRAC, Queensland University of Technology 'The roles, the problems, the future of Indonesian women' Dr Greg Fealy Research Fellow and Lecturer in Indonesian Politics at Australian National University, 'Issues in Contemporary Indonesian Islam' Professor Arief Budiman, Professor of Indonesian Studies, University of Melbourne 'The new president, capitalism and the prospects for democracy.' Enquiries: Mr Paul Thomas, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts =============================================================== Other items of interest =============================================================== Item 9. Asia CEO Update Luncheon hosted by the Asia Society AustralAsia Centre Tuesday 19 October 2004, 12.15 p.m. for 12.30 p.m. Le Restaurant, Level 35, Sofitel Melbourne 25 Collins Street, Melbourne "Opportunities and Investment in Japan" David Baffsky AO Chairman, Accor Asia Pacific Mr David Baffsky AO is Chairman of Accor Asia Pacific, the largest hotel management company in the Asia Pacific region. He has been involved in Japan for more than 30 years and will provide an update on the current investment climate in Japan. Accor Asia Pacific has more than 215 hotels in operation in Australia, the Pacific and Asia with a further 24 hotels either under construction or committed and employs over 25,000 people. Hotel brands include Sofitel, Novotel, Mercure, All Seasons, Ibis and Formule 1. In Japan, Accor Asia Pacific has seen the introduction of its Formule 1 brand have an immediate impact in the growing 'economy' accommodation market. Accor brands in Japan include Novotel, Sofitel, Mercure and Formule 1. Mr Baffsky is a director of Tourism Asset Holdings Limited (TAHL). A graduate in law from the University of Sydney, he was the founder, and until January 1991, the senior partner of a Sydney legal firm which specialised in commercial and fiscal law. Mr Baffsky serves on a number of committees including the Federal Government's Round Table for Sustainable Development, the Executive Committee of the CARE Australia Corporate Council, the Board of The Indigenous Land Corporation, the NSW Major Events Board and is Co-Chair of the National Indigenous Tourism Leadership Group. In 2004 Mr Baffsky was awarded "Asia Pacific Hotelier of the Year". This event is supported by the Australian Institute of International Affairs (VIC Branch), the Australia Japan Business Co-operation Committee and the Australia - Japan Society of Victoria. ENTRY: $77.00* Asia Society / AJS / AIIA / AJBCC/ VECCI / Asialink Members. $88.00* non members (Inclusive of GST) RSVP: To reserve a seat, send an email to: naomis@asiasoc.org.au ENQUIRIES: Please call the Asia Society on 03 9650 0998 ------------------------------------------- Item 10. CAPSTRAN Seminar The Centre for Asia-Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS) is pleased to announce the next in a series of Singapore Studies Workshops on current social and political issues in Singapore: "Handing over the rei(g)ns: Civil society under Lee Hsien Loong". Friday 22 October 2004, 10.00am - 4.00pm Room 19.1003 (Building 19), CAPSTRANS Seminar Room, University of Wollongong The workshop brings together academics and postgraduate students from across Australia with an interest in civil society in Singapore. Participants in the workshop will examine recent developments among non-government organisations and other civil society actors and the prospects for increasing liberalisation of the political sphere under Singapore's third Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. The workshop is free of charge. For more details, see: http://www.capstrans.edu.au/resources/conferences.html Enquiries: Dr Lenore Lyons, Deputy Director, CAPSTRANS, University of Wollongong Email: Lenore_Lyons@uow.edu.au, Tel: 2-4221 4894 ---------------------------------------------------- Item 11. International Korean Studies Conference 2004 11 and 12 November 2004 The University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia "The Park Era: A Reassessment After 25 Years" 2004 marks the 25th year since Park's assassination, and yet his legacy lives on, underlining the position of great importance the Park era holds in South Korea's development as a nation. The Republic of Korea has been guided by five administrations over the past 25 years, but among these it is the Park administration that marks the turning point in Korea's modernization, and South Korea today is in many respects the product of that era. The Park regime was, furthermore, a central player and agent in the political, economic and social conflicts that mark the period and drew much of the world's attention to the peninsula. It is therefore essential to our understanding of South Korea as a modern democracy and economic powerhouse that we reassess this administration. For full details and conference registration, please visit our website: http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/iksc2004/index.html Enquiries: June Aspley, Administrative Officer for the International Korean Studies Conference 2004 email: june@uow.edu.au Tel: 61 (02) 42215581 ---------------------------------------------------- Item 12. Website of the month: ABYZ News Links http://www.abyznewslinks.com/index.html ABYZ News Links is a portal to online news sources from around the world. It is primarily composed of newspapers but also includes many broadcast stations, internet services, magazines, and press agencies. ABYZ News Links does not contain actual news content but only links to other news sources. ======================================================================== The Monash Asia Institute Newsletter incorporates news items from the six research centres of the Monash Asia Institute, partner organisations and other groups working to promote Asian Studies in Australia. 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